John Ruskin Quotes
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John Ruskin
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'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
Jacob Bronowski
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
C. S. Lewis
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
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Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
Zubin Mehta
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John Ruskin